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STREET CHILD
Written by Berlie Doherty.
Stock no. 425325
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1993. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Jim Jarvis is a runaway sentenced to the workhouse. Escape seems the only solution... Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 146 pages. ISBN: 0241130581. SIGNED by author with inscription on title page.

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TOUGH LUCK
Written by Berlie Doherty.
Stock no. 425326
Published by Hamish Hamilton. Circa 1987. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Joe Bead really cares about the kids in his classroom and tries to help them in and out of school. Red boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0241120160. SIGNED by author with inscription on title page. 2nd impression.

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WEIRDO'S WAR
Written by Michael Coleman.
Stock no. 425353
Published by Orchard Books. 1st thus 1996. Nearly fine condition.

Bully and victim - trapped together underground, with no way out... Paperback edition. ISBN: 1860392318. SIGNED by author with inscription to title page. Cover corners a little creased.

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SUNNYSIDE TALES
No author listed.
Stock no. 732141
Published by Juvenile Productions Ltd.. 1938. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows boy and girl on barrel in the sea. Colour plates and b/w illustrations, all by the same artist, a few very similar to the style of Arthur Rackham. First story is "John, Topsy and the Raven". Corners worn. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to half-title. Contents lightly browned but clean. A couple of hinges pulled. Dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with loss (1" loss to lower edge of front panel). A lovely bright copy.

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THE FOUR LITTLE WISE ONES
No author listed.
Stock no. 732180
Published by James Nisbet. 1st 1853. Almost very good condition.

Square format. Blue embossed cloth with gilt titles. 427 pages. B/w plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers just a little darkened. Front joint slightly cracked. Contents clean.

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THE FAR FRONTIER
Written by William O. Steele. Illustrated by Paul Galdone.
Stock no. 732184
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1960. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth, red title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w text illustrations. 191 pages. A story of 18th century Tennessee where American settlers were still frequently at war with Red Indians. Spine slightly bumped. Covers mottled. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge-worn and grubby with tape reinforcements on verso.

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CHARM SCHOOL
Written by Anne Fine. Illustrated by Ros Asquith.
Stock no. 425189
Published by Doubleday. 1st 1999. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Bonny has no choice, but she does NOT want to to go Charm school! She has to enter the world of self-obsessed girls who really want to win the 'Glistering Tiara' and are prepared to do almost anything to get it... Dark yellow boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0385410476. SIGNED by author, with inscription to title page. Top of spine and a couple of corners very lightly bumped. Very slight edge-creasing to wrapper.

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DESIGN A PRAM
Written by Anne Fine. Illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier.
Stock no. 425191
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1991. Fine condition.

A Banana Book. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Mr. Oakway has to think of something to keep the whole class busy... 'Design a pram' he tells them. ISBN: 0434976725. SIGNED by author with inscription to title page.

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NO SHAME, NO FEAR
Written by Ann Turnbull.
Stock no. 425194
Published by Walker Books. 1st 2003. Fine condition.

A novel of love and persecution set in the 1600's, after the English civil war. Can Will and Susanna's love survive - no matter what?... Paperback edition. 297 pages. ISBN: 0744590906. SIGNED by author, with inscription to title-page.

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GIRL, 15 CHARMING BUT INSANE
Written by Sue Limb.
Stock no. 425228
Published by Bloomsbury. Circa 2004. Nearly fine condition.

Paperback edition. Like any self-respecting girl her age Jess wants to be devastatingly gorgeous, popular and intelligent... ISBN: 0747571856. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Corners slightly creased.

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GONE IS GONE
Written by Wanda Gag. Illustrated by Wanda Gag.
Stock no. 574720
Published by Faber & Faber. 1948. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small square format. B/w illustrations. The story of a man who wanted to do housework! Yellow pictorial boards. Wrapper has a small closed edge-tear and faint initials to front.

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A PACK OF LIARS
Written by Anne Fine.
Stock no. 425114
Published by Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 'Never tell lies' say the grown-ups to the children - but what about the lies the grown-ups tell?... ISBN: 0241122295. SIGNED with inscription by author to title page. Base of spine a little bumped. Wrapper spine sunned with a little creasing to edges. 2nd impression

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